Conservatism as a Growing Field of Scholarship

Among the dissenters was John Foster Dulles (soon to be Dwight D. Eisenhower's secretary of state), who wrote the foreign policy plank of the 1952 Republican platform and who included in it a denunciation of containment and a call for liberation of Communist nations: [The Democrats] abandoned f...

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Published in:The Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.) Ind.), 2011-12, Vol.98 (3), p.748-751
Main Author: Brinkley, Alan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bush, George W
Communism
Conservatism
Conservatism: A Round Table
Countries
Foreign policy
Income inequality
Iraq War-2003
Liberalism
Mass media
Phillips-Fein, Kim
Political movements
Radio
Right wing politics
Scholarship funds
Television
United States history
World War II
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Summary:Among the dissenters was John Foster Dulles (soon to be Dwight D. Eisenhower's secretary of state), who wrote the foreign policy plank of the 1952 Republican platform and who included in it a denunciation of containment and a call for liberation of Communist nations: [The Democrats] abandoned friendly nations such as Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland and Czechoslovakia to fend for themselves against the Communist aggression which soon swallowed them. ... (Phillips-Fein's book, Invisible Hands, is one of the few works of scholarship to have noticed him so far.) The Manion Forum, a program broadcast on both radio and television over several decades, attracted a large audience of conservatives and laid the groundwork for the much more visible programs that emerged during and since the 1980s.8 Given the tremendous diversity of conservatism in the postwar era, there is good reason to ask what areas of conservatism have been particularly important and lasting.
ISSN:0021-8723
1936-0967
1945-2314
DOI:10.1093/jahist/jar409